AARON ALAMO
Aaron Alamo is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist living in New York City. He travels the world with his camera documenting the ever-changing planet we live in.
“For the last 10 years I have been working on “Vanitas: Not-so-still Life”, a project that shows the destruction of a photograph through time. Inspired by traditional vanitas paintings, with elements that are carefully chosen to give them a modern twist: a skull with orthodontist braces, a bucket of KFC, or a plastic cup. The original photographs were created in 2008. They were printed on cotton paper and “treated” with humidity and culture of fungus in a dark place. The process of decay was photographed every year for the next 10 years, creating a series of images of decay and transformation. This series demonstrates how nothing is eternal -not even a photograph.
The second series includes images representing different aspects of the human condition in different places around the world: The disappearing glaciers in New Zealand, and the shrinking Blue Nile Falls in Ethiopia, for example. The Glacier photos were taken in 2018. To date, the glaciers represented are regressing at an alarming rate. The Falls photos were captured in 2019, the volume of water is decreasing every year due to climate change.”
